"good! Is it spicy? "
Every morning, large and small noodle restaurants on Wanzhou City Street will hear the shouts of this question and answer. Miscellaneous sauce noodles, with its unique spicy and delicious flavor and pure taste suitable for all ages, have almost become the breakfast that ordinary people often eat. Along with mutton Gege and Wanzhou grilled fish, it is known as the troika of Wanzhou cuisine, which is famous all over the world, renowned at home and abroad, mouth watering and full of praise.
Miscellaneous sauce noodles originated from the previous minced meat noodles, which is a sublimation version of minced meat noodles. The so-called minced meat noodle is to mix meat with other vegetarian dishes reasonably, stir-fry them in an oil pan into minced meat, and then put them in a bowl filled with cooked noodles to eat. This kind of noodles is called minced meat noodles. Because the method is simple, it not only saves cooking time, but also tastes delicious and is deeply loved by the world. In the middle of last century or earlier, in Wanzhou station, wharf or roadside, there were many street stalls that supported simple and fluffy, mainly engaged in minced meat noodles and entertained past diners in order to catch up with the time.
It was not until 1950s that a noodle restaurant named Cuitangxiang first appeared the practice of miscellaneous sauce noodles. As soon as miscellaneous sauce noodles came out, they were favored by diners because of their unique flavor and taste, and their practices gradually spread. After the 1980s, noodle shops became more and more popular, and specialized store management was carried out. Miscellaneous sauce noodle restaurants with various flavors have mushroomed and become popular all over the country, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad.
What was the inspiration for upgrading minced meat noodles to miscellaneous sauce noodles? From the official library, I don't know. Even noodle restaurants often make miscellaneous sauce noodles, but I can't tell you why. Because every chef's skill in making miscellaneous sauce noodles is passed down from one chef to another. So there are various styles of miscellaneous sauce noodles on the market. I'm afraid even if Bao Qingtian is alive, it's hard to say which one is the most authentic, each with its own flavor and characteristics.
When I came home from a holiday some time ago, my youngest son insisted on pulling me and accompanying him to a noodle restaurant to eat miscellaneous sauce noodles before going to school. On the way back, I kept thinking about the secret of delicious miscellaneous sauce noodles and asked myself again and again: What inspired the noodle chef to upgrade minced meat noodles to delicious miscellaneous sauce noodles?
I had a strange dream that night. I dreamed that I had crossed into the twenties and thirties of the last century, and I was sitting in a booth on Pengpeng Road near the riverside pier early in the morning. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of Wanzhou ancient city while eating noodles. Thick white fog clings to the winding river, playing and chasing with the choppy river, as if its cotton is hidden among the rolling mountains and dancing with the slow river wind; Low buildings, one next to the other, are embedded in hillsides and valleys, like broad beans scattered between the sky, countless; Naughty diaojiao building directly drinks river water, which makes people worry about its safety and envy; Cooking smoke, like mulberry silk, spits more and more, entangles between houses and refuses to leave for a long time; From time to time, the sound of loading and unloading goods came from the hazy dock. It seems that the stevedores stayed up all night again.
"Second brother, have a bowl of minced meat noodles."
A cry held my thoughts back. Looking back, I don't know when there were two more guests on the small table opposite. An old man with white hair and silver beard bent down to serve tea and water for a naughty girl.
The bartender quickly made a bowl of minced meat noodles, respectfully put it on the table in front of the little girl, made a standard gesture of asking for food, and went back to the stove to get busy.
"It's too greasy." The little girl saw the layers of oil beads rippling in the noodle soup and pursed her lips and muttered.
"Second brother, it's too greasy. Pour out the soup. " Sou looked at the noodles in the bowl and shook his head at the bartender and said.
"Uncle, the soup is not good, and the noodles will be very embarrassing." The bartender came over and explained with drooping hands.
"Do I eat noodles or do you eat noodles?" The little girl was angry.
"You, I ..." The bartender looked at the father and son, faltering and speechless.
"Hey, second brother, please give her some pain and cook her a bowl of raw noodles!" LaoSou hands a pool, rogue said.
The bartender didn't see the master come back from the toilet, so he reluctantly took the noodles back, put them on the stove and started cooking again. Who calls customers God? Full of bitter water, the bartender can only swallow it himself.
This time, the bartender learned his lesson. First, he put the seasoning in the bowl, without adding soup, directly picked the cooked noodles into the bowl, put some steamed buns on them, and then brought them over with a big smile. I thought to myself: you should be happy now! But what about a bowl of noodles? Look back at what I'll do to you. If the wool is not on the sheep, it is not my shop assistant.
The little girl looked at the bartender's smirk, then at the noodles in the bowl, picked up the chopsticks and stirred them quickly. As she put them down hard, she said more angrily, "Hum, there are too many vegetarian dishes, which are not delicious at all." As soon as she finished, she shook her head and chattered, stamping her feet like a lady.
"You?" The bartender dare not speak angrily for fear of offending customers. The master will blame himself when he comes back. What he wanted to say abruptly swallowed back.
"Don't be angry, second brother. My young lady only likes meat, not vegetarian food. " The old man said with a smiling face, "No way, I have to trouble your second brother again and cook her a bowl of minced meat noodles without vegetarian dishes."
"This, this ..." The bartender completely fainted, his eyes blank.
This is really embarrassing for the bartender. He learned to cook noodles with his master for more than a year, and the master never let him fry jiaozi himself. The master has always said that whether the minced meat noodles are delicious or not depends on whether the fried noodles are delicious or not. The minced meat noodles are not delicious, so the cooked noodles are discarded and no one eats them. Why did master delay letting him fry scorpions? The clerk knows: on the surface, the master wants to know more about himself, but in fact, he is afraid of smashing his own signboard; The second is to let yourself help him work for a while. This is an open secret in the industry, but no one directly revealed it.
Now the little girl is making things difficult for her to eat minced meat noodles or minced meat noodles. Add vegetarian dishes to scorpions: first, mix meat and vegetables to facilitate human absorption and digestion; The second is to reduce the cost of coquettish seeds. After all, vegetarian dishes are much cheaper than meat. Now I want to fry all the meat, but I haven't done any myself, for fear of smashing the master's signboard; Second, I can't be the host myself, for fear of being scolded by my host. The bartender shivered in his heart: Master, Master, you have peed all over the Yangtze River, aren't you afraid of the flood in Hubei and Hunan downstream?
"You won't do it, will you?" The old man looked at the bartender doubtfully.
"I will do it, I will do it." The bartender added a few small pieces of coal to the fire, put an iron pot on it helplessly, and puffed up his cheeks to help him.
A mass of minced meat stomped, rolled, jumped, gasped and whined in the hot oil pan. As soon as the naughty girl heard the noise in the oil pan, she jumped a few steps, picked up various seasoning bottles such as bean paste and Chili sauce on the chopping board, and poured them into the oil pan while dancing, humming a tune.
"Hey, it burns without adding water." LaoSou also ran over, took a look, scooped up a ladle of water and poured it into the pot.
In an instant, the noisy oil pan vomited a few bubbles, and then it quieted down, and a burst of fragrance came to the nose, which made people salivate.
I don't know if the master has finished urinating or smelled the fragrance in the pot. He finally came back. As soon as I came back, I saw two bowls of minced meat noodles on the stove, and the bartender kept stirring the minced meat in the pot. He asked the bartender strangely, "What are you doing early in the morning?"
"I want to give that little girl a new job!" The bartender replied casually.
"Where is the little girl?" The master looked around. "You?"
"That ..." The bartender looked up and didn't know when the father and son had left.
When I woke up, I told my wife my strange dream. Hearing this, my wife said, I think during the day and dream at night. That's your wishful thinking! Ok, I'll show you how to fire miscellaneous sauce tomorrow!
In fact, making miscellaneous sauce noodles is very simple, just a few steps, but it is not an easy task to achieve the ultimate taste. The key lies in the skill of frying miscellaneous sauce, especially the mastery of the proportion of ingredients and the temperature. A thousand people have a thousand kinds of frying methods, so everyone has a different taste. Now, according to his wife's method of making miscellaneous sauce noodles, it can be roughly summarized into the following steps for your reference.
The first step is the selection and preparation of raw materials. In the choice of pork, we should choose the fresh meat in the front of the pig, and the ratio of fat to thin is basically three to seven. Why choose the meat here? Because the pig's two front feet spend a lot of time, the meat here is tender and tough, with high intramuscular fat content and rich nutritional value, and there is obvious fat between lean meat, which is more suitable for chopping into minced meat. The requirement for the ratio of fat to thin is mainly to consider the taste. If it is all lean meat, the fried mixed sauce meat is dry but not slippery. Don't choose frozen meat, mainly because the meat is not fresh and the fried taste is not delicious enough. If conditions permit, it is best to choose fresh beef, which is more resilient than pork. Wash the selected meat and chop it into minced meat. It's best not to grind meat by machine, because chopping meat by hand is a slow job. Chopped meat is more elastic, more tough to eat and better in taste. At the same time, almost all other ingredients are required to be final. For example, douban and soy sauce should be mashed, and ginger, garlic and onion should be cut into powder.
The second step is to make spicy oil. The method is simple: first, put the required amount of blended oil into a pot, heat it to remove the net moisture, and then cool it to 30% to 50%; Then, pour into a bowl containing a certain proportion of Chili powder and pepper powder. However, it must be noted that when pouring oil, it must be poured slowly, otherwise Chili powder and pepper powder will immediately boil and splash when they encounter hot oil, or spill out of the bowl and burn their hands and feet.
The third step is to open a big fire and put a proper amount of blending oil, preferably without rapeseed oil. The amount of oil discharged depends on the amount of minced meat. The oil temperature is 70% hot, add minced meat and stir fry; After the minced meat changes color, add minced ginger and garlic, sesame sauce, sweet noodle sauce, douban Chili sauce, etc. If the sweetness is not enough, add some chopped green onion and stir fry together; After the minced meat is fully mixed with various sauces and stir-fried, add a proper amount of clear water, boil the water, stir-fry with low fire until the water is dry to collect juice, and take out the pot for later use. If you can't finish miscellaneous sauce's steamed bread at one time, you can put it in the refrigerator and reheat it next time. Actually, frying minced meat in miscellaneous sauce is the process of frying minced meat with miscellaneous sauce ingredients, and the standard name should be "noodles with soy sauce". I'm afraid foreigners don't understand the meaning of the word "fried", and there are several kinds of sauces in the production process, so I use the word "miscellaneous", which is often called miscellaneous sauce noodles.
The fourth step is to cook noodles. The requirement of noodles is that the wet noodles should be firm, otherwise the cooked noodles will agglomerate and not taste good. Generally, the vegetable market has ready-made wet noodles that specialize in miscellaneous sauce noodles, so just buy some and go back. Boil the water, cook it for seven minutes below, pick it up and put it in a bowl with good seasoning.
The fifth step, the simplest and most appetizing step. Add the fried miscellaneous sauce SAO Zi and spicy oil into the cooked noodle bowl, sprinkle with a little coriander, serve and stir for a few times before eating. If there are ready-made green leaves, you'd better burn a few pieces and put them in to adjust the taste.
Looking at my wife's miscellaneous sauce noodles, I was so excited that I couldn't wait to pick up chopsticks, stir them a few times and slowly pick them up. Ah! Miscellaneous sauce powder is embedded in noodles, just like pearls, sparkling and fragrant, which makes people want to leave their mouths.
Recalling that my wife has been with me for many years, I cried with shame. She gradually matured from a naughty and willful girl, shouldered the heavy responsibility of caring for the elderly and raising children, silently supported my work, and let me work outside to earn money with peace of mind. For the elderly and children to eat well, she learned a lot of traditional food and cooked it for everyone at home. I was shocked and moved by the fact that a person who once couldn't even make dried noodles well has now learned to make miscellaneous sauce noodles with more complicated techniques. Perhaps this is the traditional virtue of our whole Wanzhou people, diligence, wisdom, simplicity and affection!
Miscellaneous sauce in Wanzhou is more about Wanzhou's history and culture and local customs! You, would you like some miscellaneous sauce noodles?